Professor Myers specializes in research concerning social policies and their impact on the socially disadvantaged. He uses MSI to support his research, including a project to study mortgage-lending discrimination and a study of responsible banking in the Twin Cities. See more on the Humphrey School’s website.

The Office of the Vice President for Research (OVPR) has published a list of patents that have been awarded to University researchers during the several months. Several MSI Principal Investigators are on this list. The complete list can be found on the OVPR's Inquiry blog post, "Patent roll call, fall 2014."

MSI PIs are shown below in bold. The PIs' group pages are linked from their names. Clicking on the Project Title on the PI page will take you to an abstract of the researchers' project(s) at MSI.

Several MSI Principal Investigators are involved in an interdisciplinary project that is evaluating how introducing beneficial bacteria into diabetes patients’ intestines might improve their insulin sensitivity. Insulin sends glucose from the blood into other cells in the body; people with diabetes are unable to properly regulate their blood sugar.

Two opportunities in high-performance computing research are now accepting applications for their programs in 2015.

The Computational Physics Student Summer Workshop will be hosted by Los Alamos National Laboratory’s Computational Physics Division, June 8 - August 14, 2015. The workshop is open to undergraduate and graduate students who will work in small groups under the guidance of one or more mentors. Several projects are being offered. Students receive a fellowship, the amount of which is based on academic rank. The application deadline is January 26, 2015. See complete information at the program website: Computational Physics Student Summer Workshop.

Blue Waters Graduate Fellowships are open to PhD students in the second or later year of their graduate program. Fellowships provide a stipend, an allocation on the Blue Waters computing system, and a travel allowance to attend a Blue Waters-sponsored symposium. The application deadline is February 4, 2015. See complete information at the program website: Blue Waters Graduate Fellowships.